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The task before the new head of Toyota Motor Corp.’s Latin America business is not an easy one: to turn the Japanese auto maker’s has-been status there on its head.

The assignment is complicated by the region’s diversity, limited infrastructure, and wobbly political system whose policies can make. Toyota does business in 40 countries across Latin America with production hubs located in Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela. For Steve St. Angelo, who has spent his career in North American engineering and production first at General Motors Co. then Toyota, the first five months on the job has been a crash course in making sense of it all. Read More »

General Motors Co. has had a hard time selling its cars in Japan: just over 3,000 last year, a fraction of the country’s 4.2 million vehicle market. But the American auto maker has had success with building its brand in Japan–in bikes and clothing.

The roots go back to the late 1990s. After a trade deal aimed at opening Japan’s market, GM’s sales crossed 30,000 vehicles in 1996, and the company was looking to build more momentum. Read More »

As car makers continue assessing damage following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated certain coastal regions of Japan, it is becoming clear that disruption of the Japanese auto industry will be deeper and longer-lasting than initially thought.

Several car makers including Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. shut down production and don’ t plan to restart until the coming week. But while damage reported at many major auto-company factories was minimal, it was worse for some suppliers. Transportation networks needed to move parts and vehicles also took a hit from which recovery may be difficult.

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